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Subject:Re: Dollar a gallon ethanol production?
From:Jim Felder
Date:Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:25:29 -0600

I read last year the the distribution is that alcohol can't be run through
existing pipelines... the molecules are too small and they leak. Ethanol has
to be trucked from the point of manufacture to wherever it is mixed with the
gas, a big energy cost right there.
Jim

 It's
> kinda amusing how the article suggests that there's no infrastructure
> for ethanol distribution.... Can it really be that hard to adapt the
> infrastructure already in place to distribute gasoline, with that big
> a cost differential??
>
> Happy Trails,
>
> Greg Potts
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